About the role
We are currently seeking an experienced Scrum Master to join one of our leading clients. The role will involve working on an application development project with an immediate start. Candidates with a strong agile background are highly desired.
Key responsibilities
Facilitate Agile ceremonies for various distributed streams. Including: sprint iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups, sprint retrospectives and release planning.
Encourage collaboration and proactively seek opportunities to improve collaboration between teams
Proactively plan and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of services for the designated products and projects
Assists with internal and external communication by communicating information, especially relative to historical team metrics, progress towards iteration and release goals, and team capacity
Manage release plans, iteration plans, budgets, forecasting and status reporting for the designated projects
Facilitate frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
Lead agile projects from the initial project backlog creation and planning activities through demonstration and release deployment with responsibility for all aspects of the teams' productivity for all phases of the project
Lead risk and issue identification, and mitigation activities with the project team including escalating those in a proactive and professional fashion when appropriate
Ensure timely and accurate communication and distribution of project information to all appropriate team members and stakeholders
Work with multiple co-located and distributed Scrum teams (off-shore and on-shore)
Manage Sprints - keeping order, process, delivery, priorities accurate and on time
Work with Product Owners to ensure that testing and feedback is completed in a timely manner and meeting the Sprint timelines
Facilitate cross functional collaboration and drive self-management
Coach and help set up fit for purpose agile delivery models and behaviours
Open to new ways of working - focus on setting fit for purpose agile models rather than enforcing core agile principles if it is not useful
Drive adoption and readiness to proposed changes
Ability to handle resistance to change
Experience in using Microsoft Office, SharePoint, JIRA/Confluence
Culture & Benefits
Modis is a national professional services company with global capability. Our committed and talented professionals have delivered world class IT and business consulting services across a wide range of industries. As a member of global professional services group Adecco, we offer world-class employment opportunities.
Our people are the lifeblood of our business, and it is our people, irrefutably, who are our single biggest differentiator over other consulting organisations. At Modis, you will work for a highly successful growing organisation that offers national consulting opportunities and you will have the freedom to create your own success, as well as learning and development support in order to realise your potential. We invite you to apply below and learn more about diverse range of opportunities at Modis and what makes our workplace culture inspiring.
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